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Fire and rescue Long embedded in American culture, the concept of coming to another's aid in time of need is a distinctive, noble and venerable feature of the American landscape. Simply put, we United States citizens desire to help others in crisis situations. Globally, it is often our country that initially responds when world crises arise. In World War I, the free forces of Europe implored our assistance and the United States responded. World War II involved a similar plea from Britain's Winston Churchill and totalitarianism met its defeat due, in no small measure, to the sacrifices of Americans. Hospitals and schools in our own country were initially pioneered when...

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Fire and rescueLong embedded in American culture, the concept of coming to another's aid in time of need is a distinctive, noble and venerable feature of the American landscape. Simply put, we United States citizens desire to help others in...

When you’re young and idealistic, there’s nothing you cannot do. Even in the worst of times, of which there were plenty, Jasonus Tillery saw himself playing in the NFL.In the end, Tillery was one of the 99 percent who didn’t make it. He was invited to...

NetworkPeninsula welcomed more than 60 nonprofit, business and community leaders from across the Peninsula at their annual Impact Forum held at Legacy Hall in November.
The Forum, sponsored by E.L. Freeman, LLC and Barnes Investment Consulting Group...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe had run out of options to pull off his marquee campaign promise to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Even a risky plan to circumvent the legislature had fallen apart.
That's when the governor,...

M2 Pictures, a TV show production firm in downtown Hampton, is celebrating the grand opening of its new studio in the 100-year-old former post office building on Friday.
The 8-year-old company produces shows for the Discovery channel, National...

Daniel Snyder is younger, more lucid and owns a more valuable sports franchise than Donald Sterling. But in this way the two egocentric billionaires from opposite coasts are very much alike:
They are used to getting their way, recoil when they might...

CREW, a left-leaning good government group in Washington, D.C., called Thursday for a criminal investigation into state Sen. Phil Puckett's surprise resignation.
They also asked the state Senate's Courts of Justice Committee to delay any action on the...

Newport News Police Chief Richard Myers was one of several police chiefs from around the nation asked to share advice with a team of Missouri state police on how to defuse the tensions in Ferguson, Mo.
Myers has experience with tense community situations...

Ella Ward has always been something of an overachiever.She was valedictorian of her high school class at the segregated East Suffolk High School in 1964 and later graduated at the top of her class at Norfolk State University. She has five college...

— Phish was expected to be really good for business, but not this good. The local economic effect from the band's three-day rock concert reunion at Hampton Coliseum was estimated to be about $5 million for everything from the cost of hotel rooms to...

NBC Universal is in talks to bring back Andrew Lack to its troubled news operation, which would be the first high-level shake-up following several rough months culminating in the six-month suspension of "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams for...

In a speech that stirred political controversy in two countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday that negotiations underway between Iran and the United States would "all but guarantee" that Tehran gets...

Scott Walker may have won three elections in the past four years, but he's still finding his way in presidential politics. The Wisconsin governor made a splash last month in first-to-vote Iowa, wowing Republicans and vaulting to the top of several...

An Ohio jail is set to be featured in an upcoming reality television show, and some local officials are wary of the attention it may bring. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports (http://cin.ci/1vFmklx ) the Hamilton County jail is the star of the latest...

BRISTOL — Keith Olbermann was taken off his ESPN show for the rest of the week after making insulting comments about Penn State students on Twitter.
On Monday, a Penn State alum tweeted to Olbermann the phrase "We Are!" and a link to an article...

WASHINGTON In Washington and New York, the middle of February has been covered as a slack, gaffe-ridden period for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. In Walker's home state, none of that's true he's actually en route to a triumph. The state's Republican-run...

WASHINGTON Days before funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is getting a mixed reaction to his plan to separate agency financing from opposition to President Barack Obama's immigration policies....

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is returning to the format that helped makehim famous. The likely Republican presidential candidate is set tohost a town hall-stylemeeting in Moorestown, N.J., on Wednesday, according to his office. It will be his...

MIAMI Likening immigration reform to the great civil rights movements in U.S. history, President Barack Obama vowed during a brief visit to Miami on Wednesday to veto any legislation undoing his executive order protecting from deportation up to 5...